My relationship with Ken dates back to 1974, the year I won a scholarship to attend the
ANA Summer Seminar. Ken sponsored my scholarship that year and I took his class on
United States Colonial coinage. I was only 16 at the time and had no idea that Ken would prove to be one of the most important numismatic mentors in my career. It would have been hard for me to imagine that I would later fill his shoes as Editor of the Red Book some 45 years later.
I began working on the Red Book around 15 years ago when my first numismatic book was published,